“Biogenesis” podcast highlights MIT students behind cutting-edge biology research
The MIT Department of Biology and Whitehead Institute are producing a podcast featuring young scientists and why they chose to study biology.
The MIT Department of Biology and Whitehead Institute are producing a podcast featuring young scientists and why they chose to study biology.
Lehmann, a world-renowned developmental and cell biology researcher, is the institute’s fifth director.
Nominated by peers and students, professors in brain and cognitive sciences and biology are recognized for excellence in graduate and undergraduate education.
Assistant professors Pulin Li and Seychelle Vos are investigating how cells become tissues and the proteins that organize DNA.
Whitehead Institute team reveals molecular program that controls cells’ capacity for division.
Whitehead Institute scientists find chemical modification contributes to trafficking between non-membrane-bound compartments that control gene expression.
Along the genome, proteins form liquid-like droplets that appear to boost the expression of particular genes.
Whitehead Institute team finds drugs that activate a key brain gene; initial tests in cells and mice show promise for rare, untreatable neurodevelopmental disorder.
Researchers solve how the kava plant produces its pain-relieving and anti-anxiety molecules, demonstrate an extensible method to scale and optimize production.
Differences in male and female gene expression, including those contributing to height differences, found throughout the body in humans and other mammals.
Eight faculty members are granted tenure in five science departments.
Eight biology contestants get one slide and three minutes to explain their research and impress their listeners.
Professor Gerald Fink, a pioneer in the field of genetics, delivers the annual Killian Lecture.
Whitehead Institute researchers uncover a group of introns in yeast that possess surprising stability and function.
Whitehead Institute and MIT researchers uncover the detailed molecular structure of the sporopollenin polymer, an inert material key for the emergence of land plants.